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Jerome Lanier was an English musician, sackbut player, son of Nicholas Lanier the Elder, hence uncle of Nicholas Lanier, the artist-musician. Jerome Lanier was appointed in 1599 musician to court of Elizabeth I as Musician in Ordinary on woodwinds and sackbut replacing Mark Anthony Bassano, a post he held until 1643.
He lived in Greenwich, and was married twice:
1) Phrisdewith Grafton, daughter of William Grafton, who died in 1625; their children included William Lanier (born 1618; a musician).
2) Elizabeth Willeford in 1627.
Jerome Lanier purchased several paintings acquired for the King (Charles I) by his nephew Nicholas Lanier, in order to save them-- Clement Lanier also bought several; John Evelyn, in his Diary , noted seeing at "Old Jerome Laniere's, Greenwich, some pictures which surely had been the King's."
Jerome Lanier died in 1657, mentioning in his will his "poor little estate," [1] most of which had been lost in the Civil War. Evelyn, in his "Memoires," noted him in the household of Elizabeth I, as a man "skilled in painting and carving."